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Poland’s transformation is a story worth telling
WARSAW — The first thing that hit you about the Poland of 1987 was the smell — a pungent mix of coal smoke leavened with coarse tobacco, a whiff of cabbage and rancid sweat overlaid with clouds of diesel exhaust. Lingering on the streets and alleys of cities, towns and villages, it was not the smell of a successful or a happy society. The odor...
Stopping Criminals from Laundering Their Trillions
Rhoda Weeks-Brown is general counsel and director of the Legal Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF).By Rhoda Weeks-BrownWASHINGTON DC, Jan 7 2019 (IPS)Al Capone had a problem: he needed a way to disguise the enormous amounts of cash generated by his criminal empire as legitimate income. His solution was to buy all-cash laundromats,...
The Guardian view on the Orthodox schism: theology and low politics | Editorial
Splitting the Ukrainian church from Moscow is an attempt to build an independent nationThe Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who reigns in Constantinople, has a magnificent title which corresponds to almost nothing on earth. Although he represents an unbroken tradition of almost 2,000 years of Christianity, Constantinople has been the Muslim city...
Renew Nuclear Arms Control, Don’t Destroy It
A Soviet inspector examines a BGM-109G Tomahawk ground-launched cruise missile prior to its destruction pursuant to INF Treaty, October 18, 1988, at Davis-Monthan US Air Force Base in Arizona. Credit: US Department of DefenseBy Andrew Lichterman and John BurroughsNEW YORK, Jan 2 2019 (IPS)A hard-earned lesson of the Cold War is that arms control...
Ukraine: new Orthodox church gains independence from Moscow
Newly elected head receives decree of autocephaly in elaborate ceremony in IstanbulThe biggest rift in Christianity in centuries is expected to open up after a new Orthodox church in Ukraine gained formal independence from Moscow in a move set to heighten geopolitical tensions in the region.The newly elected head of the Ukrainian Orthodox church...
Poles accused of terrorism over arson attack in Ukraine: report
Investigators believe a group of Poles was hired out to carry out an arson attack on a building used by a Hungarian cultural association in western Ukraine in order to strain Ukrainian-Hungarian relations, according to a report. …read more Source: Polskie...
Russia Arrests American in Moscow Over Suspected Spying
Russia has arrested an American citizen on suspicion of spying in Moscow, its domestic security service (FSB) has said, quoted by Aljazeera. The FSB, which took the American into custody on December 28, said in a statement on Monday that a criminal case has been opened against the suspect. The statement, issued in Russian, identified the American...
Russia widens ban on Ukrainian products due to ‘unfriendly acts by Kiev’
Russia bans chocolate, beer and nappies made in Ukraine, in its latest economic sanctions on Kiev …read more Source:...
Vladimir Putin sends new year greetings to Donald Trump
Russian president tells US leader he is open to dialogue and pledges more aid to Syrian governmentVladimir Putin has told Donald Trump in a new year letter that Moscow is ready for dialogue on a “wide-ranging agenda”, the Kremlin said.The US president cancelled a planned meeting with his Russian counterpart at the G20 summit in Argentina in...
Talks on extending Kiev-Riga train route to Tallinn to begin in January – The Baltic Times
TALLINN – The Ukrainian state-owned railway company Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways) in January will begin talks with Estonia’…… …read more Source: The Baltic...
